Factors influencing vaccine hesitancy toward non-covid vaccines in South Asia: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Declared as one of the ten most pressing threats to global health in 2019, the complexity around vaccine acceptance and hesitancy has once again gained great momentum following the COVID-19 pandemic. Lack of vaccine acceptance may endanger the mission of improving vaccine uptake globally to tackle pandemics, reduce morbidity and mortality of preventable diseases and to prevent antibiotic resistance worldwide. Countries of the global south, including South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries are especially affected by the dangers of low vaccination uptake and continue to show decreases in coverage in recent years. This paper examines factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy in south Asia and the extent to which they are context and disease specific, guided by a mod

SUBMITTER: Stuetzle SCW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11966902 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature